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>> that gives you the feeling of what it was like. to give you a better idea of the forces behind the wave of destruction, i want to bring in chad myers and jim garrity. a seismologist at columbia university. chad, why was the tsunami as big as powerful as it was? was it just because of the magnitude of the quake? >> and the closeness and the proximity to japan in general. it was only about five minutes away technically speed wise. so when the earth below the water thrust itself up, the crust literally, the surface of the ocean bottom was pushed up by the earthquake, all the water moved as wel...

>> that gives you the feeling of what it was like. to give you a better idea of the forces behind the wave of destruction, i want to bring in chad myers and jim garrity. chad, why was the tsunami as big as powerful as it was? was it just because of the magnitude of the quake? >> and the closeness and the proximity to japan in general. it was only about five minutes away technically speed wise. so when the earth below the water thrust itself up, the crust literally, the surface of the ocean bottom was pushed up by the earthquake, all the water moved as well and it moved very quickly into japan ...

But it could be decades. not only for the west coast but for hawaii as well. so a scary situation. there is a degree of the unknown. how much did the bottom of the ocean floor move? we really don't know. how much does that wave get dissipated as it travels across the ocean floor. what happens as the wave reacts with the ocean bottom as it ramps up towards the hawaiian islands? that will totally affect how far inland it is and how high the wave goes for the u.s. that's the scary part of this. we really don't know exactly how high that wave is going to be and how far inlappnd and what kd of forc...

Didn't have a tsunami at that point, but there was a major fire and it burned a great number of buildings. buildings collapsed and you are seeing that here and the tsunami. it would be hard for me to maiming you don't have thousands of people unfortunately dead. >> john, while you are talking we are showing the anatomy of a tsunami and you were describing how they start small. we are actually showing an animated view of that. for people who are just joining us or don't know and want to know how this works, especially when you are talking about a potential event about to hit in hawaii, what can...

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